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'Mein Kampf' Banned From Publishing in Brazil; Jews Rejoice
The printing of “Mein Kampf” was recently canceled by a Brazilian publisher due to the rising pressure from the Jewish community and various scholars. According to Forward, Edipro, an editing firm in Brazil, decided to stop the initial printing of 1,000 copies of the book, stating that it was an old translation to Portuguese from the 1930s, and had no commentary. The book was supposed to be released late in January 2016. Paulo Maltz...
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Declassified Documents: U.S. Military Bombed the Nazi Germany Oil Refinery That Fred Koch Helped Build
Among the revelations in Dark Money, Jane Mayer’s expansive new book on the Koch brothers and the rise of contemporary American conservatism, is that Fred Koch, the billionaire duo’s father, once helped build an oil refinery in Nazi Germany. The New York Times broke that item last week, but left out a key detail from the book: allied forces bombed the refinery during World War II.
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Kidnapping a Nazi General: Patrick Leigh Fermor's Perfect Heist
The sierras of occupied Crete, familiar from nearly two years of clandestine sojourn and hundreds of exacting marches, looked quite different through the aperture in the converted bomber’s floor and the gaps in the clouds below: a chaos of snow-covered, aloof and enormous spikes glittering as white as a glacier in the February moonlight. There, suddenly, on a tiny plateau among the peaks, were the three signal fires twinkling. A few moments later they began expanding fast...
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New edition of Hitler’s Mein Kampf is an instant sellout
Adolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf was an instant sellout when it hit bookstores in Germany for the first time since the Second World War. More than 15,000 advance orders were placed, despite the initial print of 4,000 copies, with one copy even put up for resale on Amazon.de for €9,999.99 (£7,521.43). Mein Kampf, which means My Struggle, returned into the public domain on January 1.
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Hitler’s Plan to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill—at the Same Time
The opening of Operation Long Jump takes readers inside a meeting between Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill, held at the British Embassy in Tehran in 1943. The purpose of the summit: how to rid the world of Adolf Hitler. But before the trio of leaders and their senior military advisors can come up with an agreeable plan to win the war, Nazi assassins enter the room, draw submachine guns, and at the orders of Hitler and Heinrich...
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German court declares 95-year-old Auschwitz paramedic fit for trial
A German appeals court has cleared the way for the trial of a 95-year-old man accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp. The higher court of Rostock in northern Germany deemed Hubert Z fit for trial, reversing a decision by a lower court that considered him too fragile for a legal process.
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'Nazi gold train' investigators start surveying site in Poland
Engineers are set to start surveying a railway embankment in south-western Poland to establish how to dig out a “gold train” that is thought to have been buried there in the dying days of the Third Reich. The existence of a Nazi gold train, its whereabouts and its cargo – possibly stolen valuables and artworks – remain one of the great unsolved mysteries of the second world war.
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Bastian Schweinsteiger to sue toy company over Nazi lookalike figurine
The captain of Germany's national football team, Bastian Schweinsteiger, is pursuing legal action against a Hong Kong-based toy company, his management team confirmed on Thursday. The suit alleges that manufacturer DiD is selling Nazi figurines that bear a clear resemblance to the Manchester United midfielder. The figure, sold as "WWII Army Supply Duty," has a steel helmet, a "Wehrmacht" uniform complete with swastika insignia and a name - Bastian.
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The Warsaw ghetto uprising: Armed Jews vs. Nazis
Jewish armed resistance to the Nazis saved many lives by hastening Hitler's defeat.
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Andrea Maurer: High Hitler
A look into the megalomaniac’s drug addiction.
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Woman, 91, Charged Over 260,000 Deaths At Auschwitz
A 91-year-old woman has been charged with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder over allegations she was part of the Nazi SS serving in the Auschwitz death camp.
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91-Year-Old German Woman Charged on Nazi Allegations
German prosecutors say they've charged a 91-year-old woman with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder on allegations she was a member of the Nazi SS who served in the Auschwitz death camp complex. Schleswig-Holstein prosecutors' spokesman Heinz Doellel said Monday the woman, whose name wasn't disclosed due to German privacy laws, is alleged to have served as a radio operator for the camp commandant from April to July 1944.
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A Pleasant Day in the Alps
Hitler's home movies. "I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep." - Joseph De Maistre
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Hitler’s World by Timothy Snyder
Nothing can be known about the future, thought Hitler, except the limits of our planet: “the surface area of a precisely measured space.” Ecology was scarcity, and existence meant a struggle for land. The immutable structure of life was the division of animals into species, condemned to “inner seclusion” and an endless fight to the death.
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'Nazi-looted' posters to be auctioned
A rare collection of turn-of-the-century posters by some of the biggest names in art are to go under the hammer in New York. The collection was amassed by a Jewish dentist from Germany but was seized by Nazi soldiers in 1938. Around a third of the posters - some 4,300 - have survived, and include works by Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch and Toulouse Lautrec. The lot is valued at almost $6m (£3.7m), with some estimates...
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The American Media's Awkward Fawning Over Hitler's Taste in Home Decor
When digging through archives for records of female architects and designers active in the 1930s, Dr. Despina Stratigakos, an architectural historian at the University at Buffalo, came across something unexpected.
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Wells Fargo Contractors Allegedly Stole Family Heirlooms Rescued From Nazis
The few remaining defenders of the Obama administration’s failure to prosecute the executives who helped cause the 2008 financial crisis argue that the bankers’ actions were unethical but not criminal. President Obama himself has made this claim: “Some of the most damaging behavior on Wall Street … wasn’t illegal,” he told Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes in December 2011.
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Confirmed: Long-Lost Nazi Loot Train Found In Poland
Last week, a pair of anonymous treasure hunters approached officials in Walbrzych, Poland via their lawyer to claim they had found an old Nazi loot train. Now officials have confirmed that the pair certainly found a train. Whether it's full of gold remains to be seen. As NBC News reports, a press officer confirmed that a military train had been found and the town's deputy mayor Zygmunt Nowaczyk made the following statement at a press conference...
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Did Nazis really try to make zombies? The real history behind one of our weirdest WWII obsessions
From the pages of “Hellboy” and the pixilated corridors of “Wolfenstein 3D,” popular culture has wondered whether the Nazis, who had no shortage of well-documented kooky ideas, might have researched the possibility of reanimating the dead. Nazi zombies make for a grabber of a headline, but what real evidence is there that raising the dead was on the agenda for even the most outrageous among the Nazis?
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How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president
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